B.Sc. (Hons) in Biotechnology
A three-year Degree Course spanning Six Semesters. Biotechnology is an emerging technology, with immense potential in a developing country like India. The technological gap between advanced nations and India can be narrowed down considerably by the turn of this century and India would be a leader in certain areas of application in Biotechnology.
Genetic Engineering, which transfers genes from one species to another, has greatly enhanced the power of biotechnology. Genetic Engineering facilitates the manufacture of products particularly drugs that cannot be obtained in any other way. It can also be used to create organisms, such as plants resistant top attack by insects, which do not occur in nature. Technique involved in living organism as a means of production; cell or tissue culture; cloning and fermentation; cell fusion...
B.Sc. (Hons) in Genetics
In recent decades, the amount of genetic knowledge and its rate of growth have exploded. Many of the new discoveries have personal and social relevance through application of genetics to human affairs in prenatal diagnosis, testing for carriers and identification of genetic risk for complex traits, such as breast cancer and heart disease.
Inspired in part by the controversies and the publicity, students are showing great interest in genetics. The purpose of this course is to provide in depth knowledge of classic Mendelian Genetics, Population and Evolutionary Genetics, and Molecular Genetics. The final goal for a student who successfully completes this course is to be aware of areas of genetics with sufficient knowledge to successfully move on and master advanced topics in Genetics and Biotechnology...
B.Sc. (Hons) in Microbiology
Microorganism (bacteria, virus, fungi, protozoa and some algae) are essential for life in every environment. Many microorganism in the ocean and in bodies of fresh water capture energy from sunlight and store in the molecules that other organisms use as food. One of the most significant benefits are that, microorganisms provide their ability to synthesize antibiotics, a substance derived from one microorganism that kill or restrict the growth of other organisms. Several products important to human, such as interferon and growth hormone, can now be produced economically by microbes because of genetic engineering. In medicine such bacteriology, psychology, mycology, protozoology, virology, immunology, etiology, environmental microbiology beside agriculture and industrial application...
B.Sc. (Hons) in Molecular Biology
The techniques of molecular genetics are now being applied to nearly every major field of biology- from neurophysiology to botany and from immunology to forensics. The science of molecular biology underlies all phenomena; living things abide by all the laws of physics and chemistry. The physical and chemical behavior of elementary particles ultimately defines the parameters of behavior of any complex biological system: a bacterium, a plant, a frog or a human being. Historically, biology was based on direct observation of complex natural phenomena in the real World. The development of molecular biology was a large part driven by the quest to find increasingly purer and more powerful abstractions of essential biological processes.
M Sc. in Genetic Engineering
The program provides a strong theoretical and practical knowledge of key areas of genetic engineering and their applications. There is a research module (Project) to help students survey literature, analyze data and make critical assessments of scientific reports, papers or research proposals, and to plan their own research program.
The course will taught in English by tutors mainly from the Institute but some lectures will be given by visiting lecturers and tutors from collaborating institutions and industry...
Ph.D. (Genetic Engineering / Medical Biotechnology / Genetics)
Candidates can join in Ph.D. program by clearing admission test by our Institute. All selected students are offered a post of Tutor for three years and get fellowship of Rs 6000/- / Rs 7000/- / Rs 8000/- subsequently every year. It is a time bound fellowship for three years and time limit of thesis submission upto five years. Further, a number of research scholarships / fellowships on sponsored projects are available to the students during his/her M.Sc. / Ph.D. work. A completed Ph.D. thesis is examined by two external referees and an open viva voce examination is compulsory before a degree can be awarded. The broad areas for Ph.D. studies in the Departments are Genetics and Human Molecular Diseases, Molecular Cytogenetics (FISH/CGH/Array CGH) , Molecular Diagnostic tests, Genetic Engineering and its application, Genomics (Human/ Mouse/ Zebra Fish / Drosophila), Animal and Plant tissue culture, Medical Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics.
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